The traditional claims made&mdash;and recognised as such in the introduction&mdash;about a new British poetry generation taking over the "mainstream", were greeted in this case by more than the usual controversy. Poets in the 1962Al Alvarez anthology, The New Poetry, were excluded. The inclusion of Irish poet Seamus Heaney led to him warning - "Be advised, my passport's green/ No glass of ours was ever raised/ To toast the Queen"